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Year 8
Units are groups of lessons that relate to one another.
Choose a previously released unit
(27)
1
Introduction to Tragedy
3 lessons
2
Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 1
6 lessons
3
Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 2
4 lessons
4
Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 3
5 lessons
5
Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 4 and 5
3 lessons
6
Romantic poetry and paired texts: Introduction to the Romantics
3 lessons
7
Romantic poetry and paired texts: Romanticism and Nature
10 lessons
8
Romantic poetry and paired texts: Nature poetry
4 lessons
9
Romantic poetry and paired texts: Romanticism and Revolution
12 lessons
10
Romantic poetry and paired texts: Revolutionary and Protest poetry
6 lessons
11
Oliver Twist: Oliver and the Workhouse
4 lessons
12
Oliver Twist: Oliver Heads to London
3 lessons
13
Oliver Twist: Oliver is Caught
3 lessons
14
Oliver Twist: Oliver, Bill & The Maylies
4 lessons
15
Oliver Twist: Oliver and the Consequences
4 lessons
16
Creative writing: memoir
5 lessons
17
Rhetoric: Introduction to rhetoric
3 lessons
18
Rhetoric: Injustice: Pankhurst & Sojourner Truth
4 lessons
19
Rhetoric: Change: Michelle Obama & Lennie James
5 lessons
20
Rhetoric: Motivate: Churchill & Gandhi
5 lessons
21
Rhetoric: Writing rhetoric
4 lessons
22
Recapping the basics: simple sentences, statements, paragraphs, capital letters and past simple verbs
7 lessons
23
Complex sentences, avoiding fragments and run-ons, capital letters
7 lessons
24
Past simple tense, subordinate clauses, punctuating conjunctions and lists
6 lessons
25
Writing accurate, correctly punctuated and paragraphed dialogue, using personal pronouns
6 lessons
26
Avoiding fragments, fused sentences and comma splices. Using capital letters and writing in the past tense. Using multiple subordinate clauses, punctuating lists correctly when in a complex sentence.
5 lessons
27
Paragraphing narratives for clarity, using possessive pronouns, using apostrophes accurately, structuring, writing and editing genre-specific narratives
7 lessons
Choose a unit
(8)
Year 8
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English
1
Myths, legends and stories that inspire
28 lessons
2
'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
28 lessons
3
Taking a stand
14 lessons
4
Single poet study: Maya Angelou
20 lessons
5
Victorian childhood: non-fiction reading and writing
8 lessons
6
A monster within: reading and writing Gothic fiction
32 lessons
7
Gothic poetry
6 lessons
8
A history of language
8 lessons